{"id":25466,"date":"2022-03-07T12:19:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25466"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:19:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:19:32","slug":"biden-administration-remain-in-mexico-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2022\/03\/07\/biden-administration-remain-in-mexico-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Flouting Court Orders, DHS Makes a Mockery of Migrant Protection Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Six months after federal courts ordered resumption of Migrant Protection Protocols<\/a> (MPP) at the southern border, the Biden administration says it is doing so in \u201cgood faith.\u201d But is it? Actions by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grand total of 410 migrants were returned to Mexico<\/a> during December and January. That\u2019s combined<\/em>, not per month. In that same two-month period, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) \u201cencountered\u201d<\/a> 332,781 illegal border crossers, making the \u201dgood faith\u201d rate of return 0.0012 percent. For the 62-day period, DHS sent an average of 6.6 people per day back to Mexico under MPP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since the administration was ordered to restart the Remain in Mexico program, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has been looking for ways to subvert it. In the course of multiple \u201creviews,\u201d the secretary reportedly concluded that MPP has \u201cendemic flaws\u201d<\/a> and is not fixable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Mayorkas\u2019 disingenuous, passive-aggressive workarounds aren\u2019t fixing anything. Rather, they encourage more illegal migration while enabling continued abuse of America\u2019s badly strained asylum system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration actions \u2013 and inactions — are \u201cworking exactly as they planned,\u201d reports Sen. James Lankford<\/a>, R-Okla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lankford recently spent at week on the Texas-Mexico border, meeting with officials from Border Patrol, CBP and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In Brownsville, the senator toured a large-scale facility set up for MPP. \u201cThe building is empty,\u201d he reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo far, they have evaluated 60 people who might be eligible for [MPP], but as they went through the review process, they excused [released]57 of those and were only running three people through it, three<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFederal taxpayers are paying millions of dollars for a decorative item so the Biden administration can tell the courts we\u2019re implementing MPP but not actually doing it,\u201d Lankford concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments next month on the administration\u2019s conduct of the MPP program, Mayorkas & Co. will have some explaining to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six months after federal courts ordered resumption of Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) at the southern border, the Biden administration says it is doing so in \u201cgood faith.\u201d But is it? Actions by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) say no. A grand total of 410 migrants were returned to Mexico during December and January. That\u2019s<\/p>\n

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